While evaluating the Sony hack and explosion of related press, our team discovered an eerie tie-in to the titles and taglines in Sony Pictures massive movie library, which might have been an early indicator of the inevitable breach.

Recently UCLA announced 16,000 patients were potential victims of identity theft because a doctor’s home office was broken into and data stolen. Data breaches cost big bucks. Encryption in this scenario failed due to a password on a sticky note near the laptop...

"The hack involves the PSN web-based password reset page, where it’s said anyone can change someone else’s password using their PSN account email and date of birth—both details possibly obtained by hackers in the mid-April breach..."

Hackers sent emails to a select group of RSA employees with a spreadsheet attachment which contained malware that exploited a flaw in the Adobe software that allowed them the opportunity to glean authentication credentials that enabled access to other systems in the network...

“By bringing in the NSA, that means they think they’re either dealing with a state-sponsored attack or it’s an extraordinarily capable criminal organization,” said the former head of U.S. counterintelligence Joel Brenner...